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COVID besieges Filipino, Vietnamese Americans in Bay Area – Los Angeles Times

Vietnamese Americans accounted for 28% of coronavirus cases among Asian Americans in Santa Clara County between June 1 and Dec. 3, yet they make up 19% of the population of Asian Americans in the county, according to slides Cody presented at a Board of Supervisors meeting earlier this month.

Filipino Americans, 13% of the Asian American population in the county, accounted for 21% of such cases during the same time period.

A bar chart compares coronavirus cases. Source: COVID besieges Filipino, Vietnamese Americans in Bay Area – Los Angeles Times

Covid rule-breakers ‘have blood on their hands’ – BBC News

“It is making me actually very angry now that people are laying the blame on the virus, and it is not the virus, it is people, people are not washing their hands, they are not wearing their masks,” he said.

‘People will die’

And he warned anyone not social distancing or following the rules that they “have blood on their hands”.

“They are spreading this virus. Other people will spread it and people will die. They won’t know they have killed people but they have.”

He added: “I am watching whole families getting wiped out here, and it’s got to stop.”

Source: Covid rule-breakers ‘have blood on their hands’ – BBC News

Brexit: Boris Johnson’s father applies for French citizenship – BBC News – 

Stanley and Boris Johnson (2016 pciture)

ROTFLMAO

Stanley Johnson told France’s RTL radio that he had always regarded himself as French as his mother was born there.

The 80-year-old former Conservative Member of the European Parliament voted Remain in the 2016 Brexit referendum.

His son Boris spearheaded the Leave campaign and later took the UK out of the EU as prime minister.

“It’s not about becoming French,” he told RTL. “It’s about reclaiming what I already have.”

He pointed out that his mother was born in France to a French mother. “I will always be European,” he added.

Stanley Johnson won a seat in the European Parliament when direct elections were first held in 1979, and later worked for the European Commission. As a result, Boris spent part of his childhood in Brussels.

Brexit issues have divided the Johnson family. The prime minister’s sister, the journalist Rachel Johnson, left the Conservative Party to join the Liberal Democrats ahead of the 2017 election in protest against Brexit.

Their brother, the Conservative MP Jo Johnson, resigned from the cabinet in 2018 to highlight his support for closer links with the EU.

Source: Brexit: Boris Johnson’s father applies for French citizenship – BBC News

Venceu o direito

¡Viva Agentina!

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

” Senado Argentino aprova aborto legal e mulheres comemoram nas ruas de Buenos Aires” [ Brasil247.com]. O projeto de lei permite o acesso à interrupção voluntária da gravidez. Agora as gestantes têm o consentimento na forma escrita, ou seja, virou letra de lei. O acesso ao aborto legal é permitido até 14 semanas, tornando seguro e gratuito.

Esse tema do aborto é polêmico, porém, essa decisão me parece como a mais assertiva. Os países evoluídos caminham para isto, digo para essa realidade de não se tornar alheio, mas tratar do problema com o respeito que ele merece. Quando você leva em consideração por exemplo, o alto índice de mortes de mulheres em decorrência de abortos feitos em condições precárias, se avalia várias situações. Como disse, é um tema bastante delicado, porém necessário a discussão. Neste caso, o aborto acaba sendo uma escolha livre da mulher.

Marii Freire Pereira

https://pensamentos.me/ VEM…

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A Sweet Story

Saania's diary - reflections, learnings, sparkles

Happy Friday! Here’s a poem I wrote for my relatives for their 50th marriage anniversary. Being together (and happy) for fifty years is truly incredible, and their love story immensely amazes me! I hope you enjoy it, let me know in the comments below.

We fall in love
Hoping to share a life together
With someone special
Who will be there forever

An emotional bond
Where the hearts get paired
Where the bliss is shared
As well as each despair

Enduring life
The thicks and thins
The joys and sorrows
The losses and wins

To stick together
Through uphill climbs
And sharing laughter
In happy times

Love brings you sunshine
When all you see is rain
Love makes you smile
When all you feel is pain

Fifty years of togetherness
Bring out a meaning today
You both have truly shown us
That love can find a way

⁃ SaaniaSparkle 🧚🏻‍♀️

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Race to vaccinate millions in US off to slow, messy start – San Gabriel Valley Tribune (what happens when there is no coordinated Federal leadership from White House on down?)

Overworked, underfunded state public health departments are scrambling to patch together plans for administering vaccines. Counties and hospitals have taken different approaches, leading to long li…

Source: Race to vaccinate millions in US off to slow, messy start – San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Pakistan arrests 24 people over demolishing of Hindu temple – The Washington Post (in India, a state yesterday outlawed Muslim religious schools)

Pakistani police arrested 24 people in overnight raids after a Hindu temple was set on fire and demolished by a mob led by supporters of a radical Islamist party, officials said Thursday.

Meanwhile, dozens of Hindus rallied in the southern port city of Karachi to demand the rebuilding of their place of worship.

The temple’s destruction Wednesday in the northwestern town of Karak also drew condemnation from human rights activists and leaders of Pakistan’s minority Hindu community.

Source: Pakistan arrests 24 people over demolishing of Hindu temple – The Washington Post